Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection

by James S.A. Corey

“Moving a little fast there, Sol.”

“You’re angry.” “No, sweetie. I’m not angry,” she said gently. “Angry is yelling. This is resentful, and it’s because you’re cutting me out from the fun parts. Really, I look at you, and see the happiness and the excitement, and I want to be part of that. I want to jump up and down and wave my arms and talk about how great it all is. But that money was our safety net. You’re ignoring the fact that you spent our safety net, and if we both ignore it, the first time something unexpected comes up, we’re screwed. I love our life, so now I have to be the one who cares and disapproves and doesn’t get to be excited. You’re making me the grown-up. I don’t want to be the grown-up. I want us both to be grown-ups, so that when we do something like this, we both get to be kids.”

The autodoc chimed again. Dresden looked at it and smiled. “Great. So tell me only the good things you remember about your mother.”

and he wore a thin mustache like it was a joke he was in on.

He stared out at all of them like an actor who’d just forgotten the St. Crispin’s Day speech. “Get ready.”

“Thank you, but I don’t deserve any mercy.” “Of course you don’t. That’s why they call it mercy. If you deserve it, they call it justice.”